Very insightful commentary. The way around putting yourself on the record would be to simply use a non-state run e-mail server. This is the same tactic employed by republicans in the Bush White House for eight years. It provided protection not only from the freedom of information act but criminal investigations. If this University uses GMAIL as their host provider it may not be legal to access any University e-mail even though it may have the .edu. In any event if the professor sent any e-mails on a non University e-mail those would not be subject to the public information request. Finally, he might simply use the oops - all got deleted defense. All of these defenses were successfully used by republicans during the infamous e-mail gate criminal investigation. "Congressional requests for administration documents while investigating the dismissals of the U.S. attorneys required the Bush administration to reveal that not all internal White House emails were available, because they were sent via a non-government domain hosted on an e-mail server not controlled by the federal government." WIki article "Bush White House e-mail controversy" or e-mail-gate!

We can all learn something from republican's here - even during a criminal investigation it is not really a requirement to provide e-mail information. The professor has two republican lines of defense: 1. I did not use a University e-mail address but rather an e-mail hosted on a non-state server. 2. Oops, all my e-mails related to that blog article were deleted. "Congressional requests for administration documents while investigating the dismissals of the U.S. attorneys required the Bush administration to reveal that not all internal White House emails were available, because they were sent via a non-government domain hosted on an e-mail server not controlled by the federal government." WIki article "Bush White House e-mail controversy" or e-mail-gate!

And that is exactly why any professors with blogs would never use their University e-mail but rather a private-domain e-mail when doing any controversial research or commentary. It is the same tactic used by republicans in the White House to avoid criminal prosecution for firing 8 U.S. Attorney's in 2007. "Congressional requests for administration documents while investigating the dismissals of the U.S. attorneys required the Bush administration to reveal that not all internal White House emails were available, because they were sent via a non-government domain hosted on an e-mail server not controlled by the federal government." WIki article "Bush White House e-mail controversy" or e-mail-gate!

Easy solution - simply respond with the now infamous republican tactic of stating the professor did not use University e-mail or that the e-mails were accidentally deleted. If it works for republicans during a criminal investigation it will certainly work for a University Professor in a non-criminal investigation. From Wiki: "The Bush White House e-mail controversy surfaced in 2007, during the controversy involving the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys. Congressional requests for administration documents while investigating the dismissals of the U.S. attorneys required the Bush administration to reveal that not all internal White House emails were available, because they were sent via a non-government domain hosted on an e-mail server not controlled by the federal government. Conducting governmental business in this manner is a possible violation of the Presidential Records Act of 1978, and the Hatch Act.[1] Over 5 million e-mails may have been lost or deleted.[2][3] Greg Palast claims to have come up with 500 of the Karl Rove lost emails, leading to damaging allegations.[4] In 2009, it was announced that as many as 22 million emails may have been deleted.[5]"

Had AT&T provided a similar communication I believe their network could have been managed better. This is a great bit of marketing - showing that 5% of the users can impact the experience of 95% of users. While the 5% may be more vocal - the silent majority finally wins. Kind of like Tea Party protesters prior to losing all those elections.

Your definition of the abuse of power is different from my own. Reagan: Iran Contra Affair - drugs for weapons Bush: Warrantless Wiretapping, Torture, Kidnapping and Detention, Abuses of the Patriot Act, Abuse of The Freedom of Information Act, Spying on Quakers, PETA, Greenpeace, ACLU, and the Arab American Anti-Defamation Committee, Abuse of the Material Witness Statute, Denying Academic Freedom to professors with different ideologues from the administration. Obama: Listening to the interests of business his administration shuts down sites that provide access to stolen property by using a provision of law that arguably allows the government to do exactly that which they are doing.

A site dedicated to providing access to stolen goods is and should be illegal. Imagine if what you did in your career was suddenly stolen and distributed by thieves. Your company would no longer hire and be forced to downsize and cut costs. In my company 20,000 people would lose their jobs if thieves opened shop and provided our stolen goods. That is 20,000 families being wiped out or impacted - lower salaries, fewer career opportunities, layoffs, and stagnant growth or declines. It is really a horrible thing to do when you think of the millions of unemployed today.

Does the value of the patent and your time exceed the cost of hiring an attorney and gaining a settlement? If it does then start by hiring a lawyer and formally contacting IBM. It is possible that IBM would simply settle. If not then it will get costly.

That is if you don't shatter the glass. No way it will break on it's own. It's gorilla glass. Would take more than a dust particle to actually crack.

But Apple would cover such an issue under their service plan.

To compare a job evaluation of an accountant or assemblyline worker to a teacher is not a valid position. Teachers are evaluated on the performance of others - from students, parents, demographics, culture, districts, Admin... These all influence a teachers ability to teach. Student performance to a test is an important part of an evaluation process. When students fail to achieve we need to look beyond the classroom. Unions will place new teachers in positions to fail to protect job security for teachers with seniority. Districts will hamstring teachers... Parents and culure impact performance. The best teachers are sometimes setup to fail and teachers that should fail are protected. Too many ways to game the system.

Parents, Districts, Unions, and local government are in general well meaning but share equally in the failure of our public and charter public school system. There are a lot of stats from all sides. Blame unions for seniority over ability and districts for lack of intelligence and public education policy decision making, parents for lack of interest or the narrow interests, non-parents for voting down bonds or property taxes... Everyone has a stat to yell about. But this focus on test scores is not complete. Are demographics really the same? Culture, language at home, income, district and teachers pro-actively getting parents involved, location - busing, after school programs, length of day, materials provided (teachers buy do much out of pocket in some districts). To be a great teacher goes well beyond the classroom.

The case against Hurd - sexual harassment claim by Jodie Fisher and falsified expense reports to hide his relationship with Ms. Fisher. Falsified expense reports in itself is grounds for termination - anyone less than an executive would not be given the opportunity to resign but be fired. Look at this from 10,000 feet away - hot blonde with Political Science Degree has no business escorting a popular and charismatic CEO to these CEO executive summit meetings. We should shortly hear from Hurd's wife.

Advantage of Windows: 1. .NET framework 2. Vizio? Advantages of Apple's OS: 1. No licensing fees for Snow Leopard Server - greatly reducing cost 2. Lower level of IT support required - IT team could easily manage 5k clients over a school district. 3. Students learn C+, Objective C, and develop iPhone/Touch/iPad apps as a way to learn programming. Check out Apple's site for iPhone developer support for education - really interesting.

Nokia's claim against Apple involves patents Nokia has that are based on industry standards. Where does Nokia's innovation start and where does industry standard end? Can you patent an industry standard? Can you charge license fees that rely on an industry standard? What of the companies involved in the standard - do they now have to pay to use what they developed? Apple's claim against Nokia does not involve's standards but rather patents it owns on mobile device hardware, software, interface... Apple is in a good position on a few of its claims against Nokia. Industry experts believe Nokia and Apple will Settle based on the strength of Apple's claims against Nokia.